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We offer for sale a luxury apartment in a old townof Noto in Sicily. This apartment in one of the most prestigious noble palaces of the eighteenth century, which is located a few meters from the Cathedral, is certainly a jewel in the crown of Sicilian Baroque art where many architectural elements are beautifully displayed in one of the most important streets of the historic center. Among the distinctive features are the large entrance portal, the crenellated pediment supported by six pillars decorated with valuable capitals, the balconies with curved wrought iron railing parapets. Also worthy of note is the beautiful central courtyard where there are what were once the stables of the Palace for carriages and horses, and which today are garages or warehouses.
The apartment for sale is the most important in the palace, which belonged to several noble families over its 320 years.
This historic apartment has many rooms including the reception rooms, the pastime rooms, the former library, the bedrooms and the rooms intended for the servants but those that characterize it are the majestic and suggestive hall which was the ancient hall dedicated to parties and dances between the nobles and the families of the Sicilian upper middle class. To underline the prestige of this apartment is certainly another room even if external and it is the large hanging garden in which many illustrious people have walked and conversed in different eras including writers such as Pirandello, important governors and above all King Ferdinand II of Bourbon during the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
In the sumptuous ballroom there are still the original 18th century floor, the stucco decorations, the beautiful frescoed vault representing the rape of Proserpina, the drapes and still a part of the original furnishings.
This elegant historic building is one of the seven most important noble palaces in Noto and was commissioned by the first owners, the Barons Astuto, feudatories first of the Kingdom of the Bourbons of Spain and then of the Habsburgs, who reigned for a short period in Sicily and finally passed into the hands of the Barons Pupillo.
Walking through the rooms you can breathe in the history and you can perceive how the splendor of these historic homes must have been, it is easy to imagine that everything shone with its own light, from the magnificent decorations to the furnishings, from the cutlery to the crockery but also for the many works of painters and sculptors that once enriched all these rooms, works now kept in some of the Sicilian museums and in the nearby Palazzo Nicolaci.
The sale of this property includes the two warehouse rooms for a total accessory of 210 square meters with independent entrances for a total of about 1000 square meters, furthermore the price includes the undivided co-ownership of the large common courtyard.
This luxurious apartment located in one of the most important historic buildings in Sicily deserves to return to its former splendor.